INDUSTRIAL CHAIRS: LONG-TERM PARTNERSHIPS.
For more than 10 years, the School has been pursuing a strategy of long-term partnerships with companies through industrial chairs. Structured around themes that are strategic for the School, they aim to create scientific and educational value for the School, and competitive innovation for the company. The 14 chairs active in 2015, 9 of them in sole partnership with the School, are associated with 10 big French companies 1 big foreign company, 2 intermediate sized companies, 1 public industrial and commercial institution, 3 Agencies, and 3 Foundations. In 2015, two chairs were renewed, one by Saint-Gobain, the other by EDF.